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Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer
Explanation:
That
bright beacon you've seen
rising in the
east just after sunset is Jupiter.
Climbing high in midnight skies, our Solar System's
ruling gas giant
was at its 2023 opposition,
opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky, on November 2.
But only a few days earlier, on October 28, the Moon was at its own
opposition.
Then both Full Moon and Jupiter
could share this telephoto field of view.
The celestial scene is composed from two exposures,
one long and one short,
blended to record bright planet
and even brighter Moon during that evening's
partial lunar eclipse.
Moonlight shining through the thin,
high clouds over northern Italy creates the
colorful iridescence
and
lunar corona.
Look closely and you'll also spot some of Jupiter's
Galilean
moons.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Moon
Publications with words: Jupiter - Moon
See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 25 Á Earths Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses
- APOD: 2026 May 11 Á Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
- APOD: 2026 May 9 Á Messier Craters in Stereo
- APOD: 2026 April 15 Á The ISS Transits the Moon
- APOD: 2026 April 11 Á Artemis II: Flight Day 6
- The Bay of Rainbows
- Earthset from Orion